Civitas Leonina
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 11, 2026 11:57 AM
—
History
The Civitas Leonina or Leonine City is a portion of the city of Rome on the left bank of the river Tiber around which Pope Leo IV commissioned the construction of the Leonine Wall in the ninth century AD. This followed the Saracen sack of Rome in AD 846.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/229277207
41.90346846, 12.4495142421
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Leonine Wall (AD 640 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
-
- Civitas Leonina (Latin, AD 640 - AD 1453)
- Civitas Leonina connection Roma (unspecified date range)
- Porta Santo Spirito located at Civitas Leonina (unspecified date range)
urban area, wall (of a city), city wall, settlement
- See Further:
- See Also:
- Related:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Civitas Leonina: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/229277207> [accessed: 17 June 2026]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/229277207 |title=Places: 229277207 (Civitas Leonina) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=June 17, 2026 11:36 am |publisher=Pleiades}}